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Gift economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A gift economy is sometimes referred to as a "sharing economy," although many economists reserve the term "sharing" for the use of a single resource by more than one consumer, such as a commons, a public library, or a shared car. A gift economy is an economic system in which the prevalent mode of exchange is for goods and services to be given without explicit agreement upon a quid pro quo, or the concept of "a favor for a favor" in the Latin language. The reason given is that a gift economy stresses the concept of increasing the other's abilities and means of production, which theoretically would then increases the ability of the community to reciprocate to the giving individual. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gift_economy   (3185 words)

Gift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A gift or present is the transfer of money, goods, etc., without the direct compensation that is involved in trade, although possibly involving a social expectation of reciprocity, or a return in the form of prestige or power. A gift may either be an ordinary object or an object created for the express purpose of gift exchange, such as the armbands and necklaces in the Trobriand Islands' Kula exchange. A gift, in this sense, can be thought of as being given by God or by nature: a God-given or natural gift received by one at birth. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gift   (446 words)

NewsForge The gift economy and free software A "gift economy" is a social system in which status is given by how much one shares or gives to one's community, as opposed to an "exchange economy" where status is given to those who own or control the most stuff. Raymond also originally introduced the distinction between gift and exchange economies into the theory of open source, and objects to the view that markets are destructive of community; he sees the open-source community and its gift economy as a natural production of the free market as opposed to an enemy of the exchange economy. So the gift economy approach is more conducive to the formulation and development of new ideas and technologies, and in that respect it is beneficial to both the consumer and the developer. software.newsforge.com /software/04/06/04/142238.shtml?tid=150&tid=82   (3710 words)

(F) transition to gift economy Within the gift economy, social wealth is created all the time (it is created by human labor power) but this social wealth is not controlled or concentrated (either by an individual or a group) in such a way as to escape social control by the masses. And in making this decision--the gift economy will be guided by the consciousness and the passion of the masses--who will very much be part of the decision-making process and will be able to weigh the advantages and disadvantages from a different persective than that of a company in the commodity economy fighting for its survival. As the gift economy expands there are at least two ways in which the laws of commodity production could sneak into the gift economy--and undermine humanity's effort to create an economy without exchange or exploitation: (a) incestuous trade relationships and (b) corrupting relations with the exchange-economy. struggle.net /alds/part_7_F.htm   (2920 words)

The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines The Question of the Gift has, in contrast, been prepared with the belief that the only way to gain a fuller understanding of the gift is to expand, rather than narrow the focus, and to encourage experts from disparate fields to engage in dialogue with each other. Mauss represented gifts as essentially ambiguous, as combining generosity and self-interest, but Lee A. Fennell emphasizes in her chapter how the "illiquidity" of gifts (that is, their non-monetary value) generates "empathetic dialogue" between parties exchanging. Yet despite Mauss's discovery that gifts are "total social phenomena" governed by particular norms and obligations (76), they have often been either explained away as disguised self-interest or sentimentalized as a remnant of a golden age of pure generosity. www.cwru.edu /affil/sce/QG_volume.html   (2127 words)

The Gift by Lewis Hyde In contrast, in a gift economy, wealth is decreased by hoarding, for it is the circulation of the gift(s) within the community that leads to increase--- increase in connections, increase in relationship strength. The market economy is deliberately impersonal, but the whole purpose of the 'gift economy' is to establish and strengthen the relationships between us, to connect us one to the other. Above all, Hyde is interested in examining the effect our current immersion in the market economy and the myth of the free market has both on our view of gifts and on our ability to give and receive them. www.southerncrossreview.org /4/schwartz.html   (1527 words)

Scott Cutler Shershow: "Response to Barbara Sebek's 'Good Turns and the Art of Merchandising'" Given that the very idea of a gift economy was born out of what Vincent Pecora has shown convincingly was a pervasive and long-lived cultural nostalgia for the noble oikos, there is a particular risk, it seems to me, in conflating these ethnographic visions of archaic and non-western cultures with an early-modern aristocratic ethos. The question of the gift, and the possibility that a so-called "gift economy" might represent a genuine historical or theoretical alternative to market capitalism, has haunted the human sciences throughout the twentieth century. The very idea of a gift economy, as Sebek's account makes clear, emerges full-blown out of the anthropological discourse of the Other, a discourse which, of course, has been subjected to exhaustive critique in a wide range of post-colonial and post-structuralist theory. eserver.org /emc/1-2/shershow.html   (2053 words)

Gifford Pinchot - The Gift Economy While the exchange economy may have been appropriate for the industrial age, the gift economy is coming back as we enter the information age. Antelope meat called for a gift economy because it was perishable and there was too much for any one person to eat. Lest we think that the principles of a gift economy will only work for simple, primitive or small enterprises, Hyde points out that the community of scientists follows the rules of a gift economy. www.context.org /ICLIB/IC41/PinchotG.htm   (1793 words)

She is on Her Way Part 6 - The Gift It seemed that although the concept of the gift economy is intended to bring to light this unappreciated gift giving that goes on all the time in poor communities, the women did not see it that way. It is a forced gift but it still is a free gift." Interest on debt is a huge gift to the economy. Genevieve Vaughan opened the panel with a description of the two economies, emphasizing the importance of recognizing the hidden, unseen economy of gift giving that takes place all the time within the exchange economy. www.awakenedwoman.com /poa_gift.htm   (888 words)

Project: How to foster a Gift Economy? The bright side is that a gift economy could function fine in either of those circumstances, in the anarchy it would be an armed-to-the-teeth sort of trading and under an authoritarian regime, it would revert back to a pure state of favors for favors (think Mafia family...) and trade in information. A gift economy would be an economic model (vs. a social model, this is something that needs to scale from two people swapping something up to corporate resource management...) that has the goal of "giving" more than receiving. This is not necessarily manufactured goods, a gift economy can just as easily (more easily?) be accomplished with a hunter-gatherer culture as with an industrial one. www.openideaproject.org /openidea/942873143   (3148 words)

Countless Exchanges in the Gift Economy This definition of money - as Bernard Lietaer puts it, "an agreementwithin a community to use something as a medium of exchange" - allowsus to envision a new type of "gift economy" in which money need neverbe hoarded and members of a community are therefore free to exchangeall their gifts and services. The "gift economy" model might be extended if each individual exchangeor transaction were likewise redefined. Users submit "gifts" of expertise to the community, and receive no direct quantifiable payment--but the "rising tide" of innovation benefits everyone, immediately and over the longer term, as trust and good will are established and social/economic bonds are cultivated. www.transaction.net /biz/models/opensource   (582 words)

Gift - Gift economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A gift economy is sometimes referred to as a "sharing economy", although many Hyde locates the origin of gift economies in the sharing of food, The Quiltmaker's Gift is a beautiful picture book that celebrates the value of generosity, the spirit of community, and the quilting tradition. Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange but it is the modern equivalent of ritual gift exchange and carries with it similar social implications www.good-lucky.com /gl/gift.html   (207 words)

Gift Economy This is a pain in the butt in most cases in the real world, because even most people who have decided to operate in a gift economy way have many knee jerk reactions based on exchange assumptions and habits (it goes far beyond money). A simple gift economy practice is the FreeBox. Once i'm confident enough that they understand my work that i am willing to accept gifts from them, i will periodically send them an invitation to give toward my work, and a copy of my time records, so that they will be aware of the tax consequences. www.ourpla.net /cgi-bin/pikie.cgi?GiftEconomy   (548 words)

Introduction to the Gift Economy If we view language as gift giving transposed onto a verbal level, and if we accept the idea that it was language that made humans evolve, we could come to the conclusion that it was the gift giving aspect of language, not just the capacity for abstraction that caused the leap forward. One of the ways the exchange paradigm wins its competition with the gift paradigm is by defining everything in terms of its own aspects of categorization, competition, quantification and measurement, at the same time hiding the activity of the gift paradigm. This concealment is an important factor in degrading gift giving and making it inaccessible, both as a continuing activity and as an interpretative key for the understanding of other aspects of life. www.gift-economy.com /theory.html   (2105 words)

Micropayments and the gift economy For instance, when the user sets up their gift economy based micropayment account the user should be able to set a standard donation price for various pieces of content. In a gift economy the content consumer can decide how much to donate to the content producer, since the consumer is not held to some arbitrary price. I like the finer grain gifts you suggest that may be specific to an article or some other entity instead of being for a whole site. www.openp2p.com /pub/wlg/3765   (721 words)

REWIRED The very term "gift economy" was a self-conscious look in the rear view mirror, created by anthropologists who wanted to critique the calculated efficiency and accumulations of Industrial Era society. The Internet is still a "gift economy", where the philanthropic gestures of large institutions compete for attention with a blizzard of more idiosyncratic and independent movements. Where this gift economy resides, in the torn edges where we negotiate our own personal economies, we get an inflow of vitality, a chance for dialogue and the dialogical. www.rewired.com /97/0602.html   (1234 words)

Cookies, Gift-Giving, and the Internet In another fine example of cookies as symbols in the Gift Economy, at Christmastime (another moment especially charged with the idea of gift giving) in some neighborhoods, women bake dozens of cookies and trade them with their friends so that each has a variety of home-baked cookies to offer to guests. The amount an individual receives is much more than they could ever produce, so the gift economy works in the interest of Internet users. As Rishab Aiyer Ghosh and Richard Barbrook described in papers in earlier issues of First Monday [3], the Internet operates as a gift economy. firstmonday.org /issues/issue4_11/bays/index.html   (4956 words)

Burning Man: Preparation But value in a gift economy passes from heart to heart, from soul to soul. I won’t presume to dictate what a particular gift should be, but perhaps it would be more appropriate in some instances to simply do someone a kindness or contribute to the life of our city, instead of passing out so many tangible souvenirs. A gift is a considered thing that is imbued with spirit. www.burningman.com /preparation/newsletters/2002-summer/gifts.html   (1922 words)

An Internet Gift Economy would give altruists more independence from the Capitalistic 'Free' Market Gift Economy is an ambitious project that builds on our altruistic economics and friend2friend projects. Altruism, Equity & Reciprocity in A Gift Exchange Experiment The influence of abstracted, anonymous power that we refer to as 'money' has only been in existance for a few thousand years, whilst centralised money systems have existed for an even shorter time. www.altruists.org /projects/ff   (372 words)

Cybersociology Magazine Issue Five High-Tech Gift Economy The hi-tech gift economy heralds the end of private property in 'cutting edge' areas of the economy. In contrast, the academic gift economy is used by intellectuals who are spread across the world. Within the universities, the gift economy already was the primary method of socialising labour. www.socio.demon.co.uk /magazine/5/5barbrook.html   (4736 words)

Gift Paradigm Conference The International Conference on the Gift Economy was held November 12, 13, 14, 2004 in Proposing to unite the women's movement, the movement of indigenous peoples for social change, the movement against domestic violence, the movement for alternative spiritualities and many others with the anti nuclear and peace movements, the gift paradigm envisions total and long lasting social change stemming from an economic and cultural model based on women's practice. Women and men from across the US are coming to hear international women speakers discuss a different point of view, one that will offset the negative and exploitative mentality of our times, while encouraging non violent activism to change the global Patriarchal Capitalist system. www.gifteconomyconference.com   (276 words)

Web Runs On Love These will be paid entirely in the gift economy. The Internet is less a creation dictated by economics than it is a miracle and a gift. So much money flew around dot-coms, that it hid the main event on the web, which is the exchange of gifts. www.tresser.com /web_runs.htm   (693 words)

Gift - Treehugger: TreeHugger Holiday Gift Guide Gift certificates must be redeemed through the Amazon.com Web site, Amazon.com may provide gift certificate purchasers with information about the We think that giving a gift basket for the holidays is one of the best ideas. Send a "Gifts from the HomeFront" gift certificate to an individual military family member, gift.recommendlist.com   (188 words)

G I F T I N G I T: A Burning Embrace of Gift Economy I find myself thinking about it often...I had been aware of the Burning Man festival for some time, but had never realized the importance of the Gifting Economy concept to the event. I will be linking to your website from SynEARTH, and welcome your linking to any of my articles and papers on the Gifting economy, and GIFTegrity. It became more and more clear, as I watched the film, that this festival was a prototype for the future. www.giftingit.com /what.htm   (386 words)

potlatch : the international gift conspiracy Still other commons are social communities, such as the "gift economies" of people who contribute their time and expertise to create valuable resources. These assets - natural gifts like air and water, and social creations like science and the Internet- constitute our shared inheritance. Internet Gift Economies Voluntary payment schemes as tangible reciprocity (First Monday) www.potlatch.net   (1422 words)

37 ways to join the Gift Economy - YES! A Journal of Positive Futures Here are some ways you can spend time in the gift economy, where you'll find fun, freedom, and connection. You don't have to participate in a local currency or service exchange to be part of the cooperative gift economy. 37 ways to join the Gift Economy - YES! www.futurenet.org /2Money/37ways.htm   (561 words)

Links to Free Culture MARCEL MAUSS and THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE GIFT ECONOMY George Bataille and The Notion of the Gift www.freewords.org /fwlinks.html   (82 words)

'For-Giving' Home Page Learn more about the Gift Economy at www.gift-economy.com. c/o The Center for the Study of the Gift Economy This book is being given to you as an example of the www.for-giving.com   (48 words)

Mob Software In the gift economy, the most empty individual is the wealthiest, being the most likely to receive gifts, while in the commodity economy, the richest individual is the wealthiest, being the most likely to receive further riches. The gift economy is an economy of abundance—the gifts exchanged are inexhaustible, consisting of ritualized friendship and hospitality. Trying to reconcile these two economies today will be tough because the gift economy must encroach on the commodity economy, not the other way around as it has always been. www.dreamsongs.com /MobSoftware.html   (48 words)

PR Web (The Free Wire Service) Economy Increasing the spread of broadband connectivity throughout Europe is central to the growth of the knowledge economy. Homedecorgiftshop.com is a new home decor and gift shopping resource that provide web owners and webmasters to express their online exposure and internet users looking for home dandeacute;cor and gift related products and services. Latinohire.com is a new bilingual free employment service dedicated to providing businesses and households with a direct connection to the Hispanic blue-collar and service workers. www.emediawire.com /xml/economy.xml   (48 words)

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